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HaVERFORD COLLEGE: 



Its Aims and Characteristics. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 
1879. 



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{^Near Haverford College Station, 07i the Petmsylvania Railroad, nine miles west 
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Haverford College is an institution which gives 
a thorough and guarded collegiate education of the 
highest grade, and at the same time furnishes for 
all its students a healthful, agreeable, and comfortable 
home. It is situated in a beautiful rural district, re- 
moved from the distractions and temptations of city 
life. A very harmonious feeling prevails between the 
officers and younger members, the discipline being 
kindly, enforced chiefly by private admonition and ap- 
peals to the manliness and good sense of the students. 
The College aims to promote the right moulding of the 
whole character, as well as intellectual culture. 

The institution was founded in 1832 by members of 
the Society of Friends,* who wished to provide a place 

* The corporators named in the original charter were " Thomas P. Cope, 
Thomas C. James, Samuel Bettle, Isaac Davis, and Daniel B. Smith, and their 
associates and successors." Tlie same instrument designates the following per- 
sons as the first officers of the Corporation: "Secretary, Henry Cope; Treasurer, 
Benjamin H. Warder; Managers, Thomas P. Cope, Thomas 'C. James, Samuel 



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for the instruction of their sons in the higher learning, 
and for moral training, that should be free from many 
of the temptations to which they believed the students 
at most of the larger colleges were exposed. They ac- 
cordingly purchased a farm of one hundred and ninety 
acres, increased by additional purchases to two hun- 
dred and fifteen, in the township of Haverford, Penn- 
sylvania, nine miles west of Philadelphia. Within this 
purchase a tract consisting at first of about forty acres, 
but gradually enlarged until it now contains upwards 
of sixty, was set off and planted with a large variety of 
ornamental trees, to constitute the academic grove in 
which the new seat of learning was to arise. The site 
is remarkably healthful, as has been proved by the 
experience of nearly half a century. It has an ele- 
vation of about four hundred feet above the sea, and 
it is supplied with pure water from an unfailing spring. 
The institution here established has extended its 
usefulness even beyond the expectation of its founders, 
and is now open to young men of every denomi- 
nation, if of good moral character and the requisite 
intellectual attainments. Although a full collegiate 
course of study was pursued in it from the first, for 
more than twenty years it bore the modest title of 

Bettle, Isaac Davis, Isaac Collins, Thomas Kimber, Daniel B. Smith, John Paul, 
Thomas Evans, Samuel B. Morris, Abraham L. Pennock, Bartholomew Wistar, 
John Gummere, John G. Hoskins, George Stewardson, Charles Yarnall, Samuel 
Parsons, John Griscom, Thomas Cock, Samuel F. Mott, Lindley Murray, Gerard 
T. Hopkins, Joseph King, Jr., Benjamin W. Ladd." But one of these officers is 
now surviving (1879). 



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" Haverford School." Early in the year 1856, how- 
ever, it was incorporated as a College ; for it was 
felt to be no more than just that the scholarly attain- 
ments of its graduates should be attested by those 
academic Degrees which are generally understood to 
indicate such attainments, and which were not withheld 
in any other seminary of learning of equal grade with 
Haverford. 

The principal buildings, on the grounds of the Col- 
lege, are the Founders' Hall, Barclay Hall, the 
Library and Alumni Hall, the Observatory, and the 
Gymnasium and Laboratory. They are all built of 
stone, and well adapted to their purposes. 

FOUNDERS' HALL, 

a large and well-constructed building, was begun in 
1832; and in it, in the fall of 1833, the School was 
opened. This was for a long time the chief edifice 
of the institution, containing the study and recitation 
rooms, the laboratory, the library, the dormitories, and 
the dining-room. Its internal arrangements have been 
recently modified, and it is now occupied chiefly by 
the recitation-rooms, the Natural History Museum, the 
Physical Laboratory, the draughting-room, and the Pre- 
fect's office ; retaining the dining-room and kitchen, 
almost alone of its original apartments. 

The recitation-rooms are cheerful and commodious, 
well lighted and well ventilated, and furnished with the 
most approved seats and desks, blackboards, maps, etc. 



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The Museum of Natural History, occupying a large 
and well-lighted apartment, is under the care of a 
special committee of the Board, and has lately received 
valuable additions. 

The room for free-hand and instrumental drawing 
is furnished with new and convenient tables, and 
materials for prosecuting the work. 

The Physical Laboratory is used with advantage 
for practical exercises, experiments, and investigations. 
It adjoins the Cabinet of Physical Apparatus. 

Closely connected with the Founders' Hall, is the 
building occupied as a 

GYMNASIUM AND CHEMICAL LABORATORY. 

The Gymnasium, built in 1853, is well furnished with 
apparatus, and affords excellent advantages for physical 
culture. 

The Chemical Laboratory, thoroughly refitted in 
1878, is provided with the best modern conveniences 
and appliances. Each student has his own work-table, 
and is supplied with the necessary chemicals and imple- 
ments. Gas is furnished at the tables, water is easy 
of access, and eood ventilation is secured. A chemical 
class-room adjoining gives favorable opportunity for 
instruction by lectures. The students perform with 
their own hands the experiments described in the text- 
books, and are practised also (if they choose the ad- 
vanced courses in chemistry) in qualitative and quanti- 
tative analysis, for both of which there are ample 



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facilities. There is a good stock of apparatus, which 
is increased as the wants of the College require. 

Between the two Laboratories there is a commodious 
Lecture Room, with rising seats, well supplied with the 
appliances needed for experimental demonstration. 

THE LIBRARY AND ALUMNI HALL, 

a tasteful and well-proportioned building, erected by 
the Alumni Association in 1863-64, contains a fine 
auditorium, used for lectures, society meetings, and 
the public exercises of the College, and furnishes 
accommodations for the College and Society Libraries, 
with a reading-room always warmed and lighted. 
The number of volumes in the libraries at the begin- 
ning of the year 1879 is about 12,000. The different 
libraries complement each other, inasmuch as books 
found in any one of them are not duplicated in the 
others, and are accessible freely to all the students. 
The books have always been very carefully selected, 
and now cover a wide range of literature and science, 
forming a good working library for students' use. A 
very complete card catalogue makes it easy to ascer- 
tain the resources of the Library on any topic, and to 
go at once to the books or review articles in which 
that topic is illustrated. A large number of the best 
European and American periodicals are taken in. The 
Library is regarded as inferior in importance to no 
other department of the College, and the freest access 
to its treasures is allowed at all times. 



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THE OBSERVATORY, 

which was built in 1852, is designed, like the Library 
and Laboratories, for the actual benefit and instruction 
of the students. The instruments with which it is fur- 
nished are a part of the working physical apparatus 
of the College. Herein it is more useful to the 
students than such observatories as are devoted chiefly 
or exclusively to purposes of discovery and the ad- 
vancement of science. The classes at Haverford are 
made familiar with the use of astronomical instru- 
ments, and acquire, from actual observation, a practical 
acquaintance with Astronomy. 

The Observatory contains an Equatorial Telescope, 
mounted in the Fraunhofer style, with an object-glass 
of 8^ inches aperture, and a focal length of 11 feet, 
and furnished with an annular micrometer, with six 
eye-pieces^ varying in magnifying power from 60 to 
900 times ; a Meridian Transit Circle, of the German 
form, having a Telescope of 4 inches aperture, and 
5 feet focus, with a circle at each end of the axis 26 
inches in diameter^ one reading by four verniers to 
two seconds of arc, the other used simply as a finder ; 
a Prime Vertical Transit ; a Solar Clock ; a Sidereal 
Clock, with the mercurial compensation; and Bond's 
Magnetic Chronograph, for the instantaneous record- 
ing of observations. 

The latitude of the Observatory is 40° o' 36".5 N.; 
its longitude 5^ i"" I2'*''.75 W. from Greenwich. 



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BARCLAY HALL, 

the largest and most stately of the College buildings, 
was completed in 1877, and is one of the most beauti- 
ful and best planned collegiate edifices in America. 
In the general arrangement, every two students occupy 
a private study, with which their separate bed-rooms 
are connected. There are also sino-le rooms, for the 
use of students who prefer to be entirely alone. The 
rooms are all cheerful, comfortable, and convenient, 
furnishing opportunities for uninterrupted study, and 
also for retirement and private devotion. The whole 
building is warmed by steam, and it contains every 
convenience in the way of bath-rooms, wash-rooms, 
etc., and constant access to hot and cold water. The 
Collection Room, in which the students assemble for 
the devotional reading of the Bible, and on some other 
occasions, is on the first floor of Barclay Hall. 

THE GROUNDS. 

The College buildings are situated in the midst of orna- 
mented grounds of more than sixty acres of diversified 
surface, which are laid out in walks and lawns, and 
shaded by a large variety of well-grown trees. The ex- 
treme beauty of these grounds makes them very attract- 
ive to visitors, and they are a permanent source of 
pleasure to the members of the College. It can hardly 
be without beneficial influences upon the mind and heart 
that one's youth should be spent amid such scenes. 



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CRICKET AND BASE-BALL FIELDS, ETC. 

Near the College buildings there are large and well 
appointed fields for cricket and base-ball ; which games, 
together with foot-ball, each at its appropriate season, 
furnish ample occasion for invigorating physical exer- 
cise, while they are not allowed to interfere with study 
and the higher purposes of residence at the College. 
A sheet of water furnishes in winter an excellent 
skating pond. The surrounding country abounds in 
beautiful scenes and attractive walks ; the gymnasium 
can be resorted to in stormy weather, as well as at 
other times ; and altogether the inducements at Haver- 
ford to healthful exercise are great. 

COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. 

It is the aim of Haverford College to give a thorough 
and generous training, which shall cultivate the intel- 
lectual powers of its students symmetrically and roundly, 
and fit them for effective action in practical life, laying 
also a broad basis for any future special acquisitions. 
The courses of instruction retain the standard studies 
proved to be most fruitful in mental culture, and add 
to them those scientific and practical studies which 
have risen into prominence and importance in recent 
times. There are two courses. Classical and Scientific. 
In both, narrowness and illiberality have been avoided. 
Each course is designed to give a broad as well as 



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thorough culture, so that the Baccalaureate Degree, 
whether In Arts or Science, may attest a compre- 
hensive and truly liberal Christian education. 

The following is the Course of Study for the De- 
cree of Bachelor of Arts : 

Freshman Year. 

New Testament, Euclid's Geometry, Alsop's Algebra, Loo- 
mis's Plane Trigonometry, Xenophon and Herodotus, Homer, 
Review of Greek Grammar, Exercises in writing Greek, Livy, 
Horace, Review of Latin Grammar, Exercises in writing Latin, 
English Literature, Rhetoric, Compositions, Guyot's Earth and 
Man, Tenney's Zoology, Wood's or Gray's Botany, Greek and 
Roman History, Drawing. 

Sophomore Year. 

The Bible, Greek Testament, Trigonometry, Surveying, with 
Field Practice, Norton's Natural Philosophy, The Prometheus 
of Aeschylus, Plato's Apology and Crito, Exercises in writing 
Greek, Horace, The Germania and Agricola of Tacitus, Exer- 
cises in writing Latin, Eliot and Storer's Chemistry, Geology, 
Dymond's Essays on Morality, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, 
History, Themes, Drawing. 

Junior Year. 

Greek Testament, Analytical Geometry, Differential and 
Integral Calculus {elective), Astronomy (with practice in the 
Observatory), Thucydides, The Antigone of Sophocles, Exer- 
cises in writing Greek, Cicero's Tusculan Disputations and 
Somnium Scipionis, The Captives of Plautus, Exercises in 
writing Latin, Geology completed, French Grammar, Telemaque, 
Histoire de Charles XII., Whately's Rhetoric, Whately's Logic, 
Haven's Mental Philosophy, Political Economy, Kent's Com- 
mentaries on the Law of Nations and American Law, Themes, 
German {elective), Qualitative Analysis {elective). 



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Senior Year. 

REQUIR-EX) STUDIES. 

Greek Testament, Juvenal, Cicero's and Pliny's Letters, The 
Ancient Pronunciation of Latin, Latin Compositions, History 
of Ancient Literatures, Whitney's Science of Language, Ger- 
man, Anglo-Saxon, Philological Study of the English Language, 
Butler's Analogy, Barclay's Apology, Gurney's Observations, 
Arnold's Lectures on Modern History, Guizot's History of 
Modern Civilization, Hallam's Constitutional History, Anatomy 
and Physiology, Hygiene, Forensics. 

Er.ECTI^^E STUDIES. 

Analytical Mechanics, Differential and Integral Calculus, 
Physics, Astronomy with Observatory Practice, Meteorology, 
Demosthenes on the Crown, Greek Lyric Poets, Classical Phi- 
lology, Writing Greek, Advanced German, French, Psychology. 

The Course of Study for the Degree of Bachelor 
OF Science Is the following: 

Freshman Year. 

The same as in the Classical Course, with the exception 
of Greek, and with the addition of Natural PJiilosopliy and 
Chemistry. 

Sophomore Year. 

The same as in the Classical Course, but omitting Latin and 
Greek, and adding French, Physics, Clicniistry (continued). As- 
tronomy, and Natural History. 

Junior Year. 

The Bible, Analytical Geometry, Calculus, Elementary Greek 
[elective^, Latin {elective), French, German, Rhetoric, Logic, 
Themes, Advanced Chemistry [elective). Advanced Geology and 
Mineralogy {elective), Acoustics, Optics, Heat and its Appli- 
cations, Electricity, Descriptive Geometry, Political Economy, 
International and American Law. 



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Senior Year. 

R,EQXJIR,Er> STXJDIES. 

The Bible, Mechanics, Astronomy with Observatory Practice, 
Meteorology, German, Anatomy and Physiology, Hygiene, 
Mental Philosophy, Butler's Analogy, Gurney's Observations, 
Barclay's Applogy, Arnold's Lectures on Modern History, 
Guizot's History of Civilization, Hallam's Constitutional His- 
tory, The Philological Study of English. Anglo-Saxon, 
Forensics. 

ELECTI^V^E STXJDIES. 

Higher Mathematics, Higher Physics, Quantitative Analysis, 
Greek, Psychology. 

LECTURES 

are delivered frequently by the Professors, and by other 
men of distinction in science and letters, and supple- 
ment happily the instructions of the class-rooms, 

RELIGIOUS EXERCISES. 

All the students attend the mid-week religious meet- 
ing at the Friends Meeting-house, in the neighborhood, 
at which those who remain at the College attend also 
on the First Day of the week. On First Day after- 
noon there is a Collection, in which the students listen 
to appropriate reading. The Holy Scriptures are read 
every morning at the breakfast table, after the meal ; 
and there is a Collection for Bible reading, followed 
by a devotional pause, at nine o'clock every evening, 
which all the students are required to attend. Each 
class has a recitation weekly in the Bible, either in 
English or in the original Greek of the New Testament. 



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Instruction is given in the Evidences of Christianity, 
and in the simple, cardinal truths of pure religion. 

SUMMARY OF ADVANTAGES. 

Haverford College presents advantages and attrac- 
tions for able and conscientious students, in the health- 
fulness and beauty of its location, its facilities for 
wholesome physical exercise, the liberality of its do- 
mestic arrangements and the comforts of the home 
provided for all its members, the high moral and re- 
ligious tone which prevails in the Faculty and among 
the students, the ability and accomplishments of the 
teachers, the thoroughness of the instruction, the ful- 
ness and judiciousness of its courses of study, the 
opportunities for investigation and practice offered in 
its Laboratories, Library, and Observatory, and the 
standard which it constantly upholds of a sound, 
manly, and Christian scholarship. 

Situated on one of the great trunk lines of railway 
in America, the College is easy of access from every 
part of the country, and is conveniently near to express 
and telegraph offices and a post-office. 

REQUISITES FOR ADMISSION. 

For admission to the Freshman Class, the College 
requires, in Classics, a familiar knowledge of the 
paradigms and of the leading rules of Syntax, in 
Latin and Greek Grammar, to be tested, in part, by 



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writing easy sentences in Latin and Greek ; acquaint- 
ance with Prosody, to be proved by scanning verses 
from Virgil ; and ability to give, after one hour's study, 
with the aid of a Lexicon, a literal translation of a 
passage not before read by the candidate, both in Latin 
and Greek prose or verse, and to apply the proper 
rules of Syntax to the constructions in that passage. 

Candidates are recommended to read the books of 
a preparatory course in Greek and Latin which are 
ordinarily prescribed in the requisitions for admission 
to American colleges ; but this course may be varied 
at the discretion of teachers, our desire being simply 
that the candidate shall be found to possess sufficient 
knowledge of both languages to enable him to pursue, 
with facility and advantage, the studies of the Fresh- 
man Year. In other words, a person may be con- 
sidered as prepared for admission in the Classical 
Department, if, in the judgment of a competent teacher, 
his knowledge of Greek and Latin is sufficient to enable 
him to learn satisfactorily lessons of moderate length 
in the Histories of Livy and Xenophon's Anabasis, 

Those who enter for the Scieittific Course are ex- 
cused from the examination in Greek ; in place of 
which, in 1880 and subsequent years, they will be ex- 
amined in Balfour Stewart's Primer of Physics and 
Gray's "-How Plants Grow,'' or equivalents. 

In Mathematics, a good knowledge of Arithmetic, 
including the Metric System, and of Algebra, as far as 
Quadratic Equations, is required. It is very desirable 



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that candidates should have some introductory knowl- 
edge of Geometry, gained from the first two books of 
Playfair's Euclid or their equivalents. 

Candidates must be familiar with English Grammar, 
Spelling, Geography, and the History of the United 
States. Particular importance is attached to these ele- 
mentary studies. 

Satisfactory examination-papers, written under proper 
safeguards at first-class schools, and sent to us by the 
teachers suitably attested, will be accepted so far as 
they cover the same ground as our own requisitions. 

Students may be admitted to advanced Classes, if 
found fully prepared for admission to the Freshman 
Class, and thoroughly fitted also in all the regular 
studies of the Course up to the point at which they 
enter. 

APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION 

should be made to the President, Thomas Chase, LL.D., 
Haverford College P. O., Montgomery County, Pa. 
Each candidate must forward, together with his appli- 
cation, a certificate of good moral character from his 
last teacher ; and students from other colleges must 
offer also certificates of dismission in good standing. 
Candidates will present themselves at the College, for 
examination, at 2 o'clock, P. M., on Comme^icevtent Day, — 
the last Fourth-day (Wednesday) of the Sixth month 
(June), — or at g o'clock on the morning preceding the 
opening of the Term at which they desire to enter. 



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TERMS. 

The College year begins on the first Fourth-day in 
the Ninth month (September). There are two recesses, 
one at the end of the civil year, the other in the latter 
part of the Fourth month (April), thus dividing the 
year into three terms. Commencement is followed by 
a vacation of ten weeks. Students may enter at the 
beginning of any term. 

The price of Board and Tuition is S435.00 per 
annum, payable to the Prefect, one-half at the begin- 
ning and one-half at the middle of the College year. 
Washing is charged at the rate of 75 cents per dozen. 

All necessary furniture for the studies and bed- 
rooms, including beds and bedding, is furnished by 
the College. 

Towels and napkins must be brought by the students, 
and all articles of clothing must be marked legibly with 
the owner's name in full. 

For circulars, catalogues, and any desired informa- 
tion, application should be made to Professor Allen 
C. Thomas, Prefect, Haverford College P. O., Mont- 
gomery County, Pa. 

Issued by order of the Board of Managers, 

Edward Bettle, Jr., 

Secretary. 



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